The occupations-based selection is just something that I have heard from other lawyers from their meetings with IRCC, namely, that they were considering with regard to selection. In the current provisions, there is no definition of what these groupings could be. In the future, the minister, if these provisions passed, could choose to use occupations-based selection. What this will mean, how they will select occupations, is not known. Normally in the past when they've used occupations-based selection, it's just been a list. Nobody knows where these occupations come from. That's why I say it could be subject to lobbying. Who knows where this research comes from as to which occupations are in need?
My main concern with these provisions is that they're not defined and as such, in the future, the minister is not subject to parliamentary oversight.